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𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗹𝘆𝗻, 𝗡𝗬 🦁📚✨ We publish wonder-saturated illustrated books from around the world!
https://enchantedlion.com
Our first book of 2026 is here!!!

Natalia Shaloshvili’s WHAT A SMALL CAT NEEDS, trans. from Russian by Lena Traer, is an adorable picture book about an adorable cat 🐾

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#kidlit #worldkidlit #bookbirthday #newpicturebook
January 27, 2026 at 7:45 PM
THE ADVENTURES OF CIPOLLINO is a 2026 Batchelder Honor Book (most outstanding children’s translations)!

Gianni Rodari wrote this book in 1950s Italy, and in the US today, his themes of hope, justice, & human dignity remain just as relevant as ever.
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#kidlit #alayma
January 26, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Dring-dring! 🚲 Here’s a #sneakpeek at the newest Chirri & Chirra adventure: CHIRRI & CHIRRA, AMONG THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS 🌸🌸🌸

Out this April from Enchanted Lion: enchantedlion.com/all-books/ch...

#kidlit #worldkidlit
January 20, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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enchantedlion.com/all-books/od... I am so excited for ODDS AND ENDS by Maija Hurme translation from the Finnish by Mia Spangenberg coming this May from @enchantedlion.bsky.social #worldkidlit It was love at first sight when I saw it in 2023 at an Etana Editions event
Odds and Ends [Forthcoming: May] — Enchanted Lion Books
Written & illustrated by Maija Hurme Translated from Finnish by Mia Spangenberg In this charming translated work from Finland, an imaginative child makes a scrapbook of "lasts" instead of ...
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January 17, 2026 at 5:23 PM
📣 Happening tomorrow at 11am!!!

Come one, come all for a special story time of TEDDY, LET’S GO! with author @michnott.bsky.social 🧸🧡

We hope to see many of you at Spiral Books in Soho!

📆 Sat, Jan 17 at 11am
📍Spiral Books (147 Sullivan St, NYC)

#kidlit #nycevents
January 16, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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For Day 14 of my PB reading challenge I was blown away by THE SNOW THEATER by Ryoji Arai. This wintry PB is brimming with childlike imagination and surreal magic. I always love seeing the books that @enchantedlion.bsky.social releases! ❄️🎭🦋📖 #StoryStudy #KidLit
January 14, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Happening THIS SATURDAY Jan 17 at 11am: Join @michnott.bsky.social for a story time of TEDDY, LET’S GO! at Spiral Books in Soho!

📆 Saturday, January 17 at 11 am
📍Spiral Books (147 Sullivan St, NYC)
🎟️ FREE & open to public!

RSVP here: enchantedlion.com/events/2026/...

#kidlit #nycevents
January 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Look into Edward Lear's incredibly magical and interesting life and my conversation with #author Barry Wolverton Hill in the #bookbug column/Story Monsters Ink magazine @storymonsters.bsky.social 📚

#poetrycommunity #edwardlear @enchantedlion.bsky.social #childrensbooks #readers #booksky #libraries
January 6, 2026 at 3:11 PM
🎉🎉🎉 THE ADVENTURES OF CIPOLLINO is in the @nytimes.com!!

“Tolstikova’s lush watercolor illustrations and the prominent theme of freewheeling underdogs triumphing over a stuffy bureaucracy will carry young readers effortlessly through this anthropomorphic adventure.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
January 5, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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My translation into English of Argentine author/illustrator Isol, for @enchantedlion.bsky.social

#xl8
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen #buchsky #buchliebe

21/30
December 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Looking for a last minute gift idea? One of my favorite independent publishers @enchantedlion.bsky.social offers subscriptions (full of translations for kids) #worldkidlit
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Enchanted Lion's 2026 Hot-Off-the-Press Subscription Box! — Enchanted Lion Books
This special subscription box is for all EIGHTEEN of Enchanted Lion’s 2026 titles:  we’ll send you an  advance copy  of each book as soon as it’s available and always a couple of ...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
TOMORROW Dec 18 at 6pm: Eya Gina discusses the power of wordless books with our very own Claudia Bedrick at Sullaluna NYC!

Join us for the book launch of UN POSTO FRA LE STELLE:

📆 Thurs, 12/18, 6-6:30pm
📍Sullaluna NYC (41 Carmine St, NYC)
🎟️ Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/no-words-n...

#kidlit
December 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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SATO THE RABBIT: MORNING LIGHT by Yuki Ainoya, trans. from Japanese by Michael Blaskowsky @enchantedlion.bsky.social is on our #Fanfare25 list. Congratulations! #BestBooks #KidLit #HBMag #HornBookMagazine #HBFanfare25 #PictureBooks #HBFanfare sbee.link/dtvnxeqg4y
Fanfare 2025 Booklist
Our choices for the best books of the year.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
SATO THE RABBIT, MORNING LIGHT is a #HBFanfare selection for Best Picture Book of the Year!!!!!!
Congrats to everyone whose books are #HBFanfare selections! Here is PICTURE BOOKS youtu.be/qRW73ojuHMA; find the complete list here:
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Annotations will be published in the Dec #NotesfromtheHornBook newsletter + in the Jan/Feb #HBMag. Happy reading! #Fanfare25 #HBFanfare25
Horn Book Fanfare 2025: Picture Books
YouTube video by HornBookInc
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December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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My favorite 2025 books that were not translations
both from @enchantedlion.bsky.social
THE BOY WHO BECAME A PARROT: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear Who Invented Nonsense by Wolverton Hill & Laura Carlin
DON’T EAT ME: The Almost True Story of Belladonna by Kate Finney & Esmé Shapiro #kidlit
December 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In celebration of 2025 coming to a close, we’re holding a FLASH SALE for 25% off ✨everything✨ on enchantedlion.com for the next 7 days! Plus, we’re covering any extra costs to make sure your orders arrive by Dec 23.🎁📚✨

It’s our gift to you, dear readers—happy reading, and happy holidays! 🫶

#kidlit
December 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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My translation of THE BOOK OF DENIAL by Ricardo Chávez Castañeda & Alejandro @magallanes71.bsky.social ( @enchantedlion.bsky.social ) is included.

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#booksky #horrorsky #horror #xl8 #mexico #diadelosmuertod
December 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
THE SNOW THEATER has been featured in the Wall Street Journal!

“Sublime artwork and a mystical story of escape and forgiveness give Ryoji Arai's picture book THE SNOW THEATER a redemptive holiday feeling.” —Meghan Cox Gurdon, for @wsj.com

Full review: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
December 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Gracias to @missadadoom.bsky.social for including my translation of THE BOOK OF DENIAL by Ricardo Chavez Castañeda & Alejandro @magallanes71.bsky.social ( @enchantedlion.bsky.social ) in her folk #horror in #translation roundup for CRIME READS:

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#booksky #xl8
6 Great Folk Horror Novels in Translation, Recommended by a Translator of Folk Horror
Togetherness that’s on the side of suffocating, history that won’t stay put or past, and nature that doesn’t just exist, benignly, but watches and waits….Folk horror deals in dissonance, drea…
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December 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We’re absolutely thrilled that LOOSE THREADS is one of @burleyfisher.bsky.social’s Best Books of the Year 2025–and the only children’s book to make the list!

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Isol, trans. @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social, LOOSE THREADS: A PICTURE BOOK @enchantedlion.bsky.social

"[Heading to] the underside where the wild things are, Leilah goes to find lost things. This is a book of gentle genius for reading together or alone, tracing the patterns that make up our lives."
Loose Threads: A Picture Book
Author: Isol Translator: Lawrence Schimel  Publisher: Enchanted Lion Hardback Burley Fisher Books of the Year 2025 So says… This picture book brings together imagination, craft, storytelling and belon...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
THIS Wed, 12/3 is Rizzoli’s Holiday Fair! Featuring:

Esme Shapiro & Kate Finney (DON’T EAT ME! THE ALMOST TRUE STORY OF BELLADONNA)

Giselle Potter (BEFORE SHE WAS MY GRANDMOTHER)

Dasha Tolstikova (ADVENTURES OF CIPOLLINO)

📆 Wed 12/3, 6-8pm
📍Rizzoli Books (1133 Broadway, NYC)

Free & open to all!
December 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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They love working with schools and libraries. I emailed them and told them about the afterschool program and the demographics of our students. They’ve curated these books for us.

Email them or check them out: enchantedlion.com/all-school-a...
Shop School & Library Collections — Enchanted Lion Books
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November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Look at these beautiful breathtaking @enchantedlion.bsky.social books!!! This is for the library of the afterschool program where I volunteer. Thank you, Enchanted Lion!!!
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Out today: THE COZIEST PLACE ON THE MOON ✨✨✨

Have you ever felt like the loneliest creature in the world?

This picture book from @mariapopova.bsky.social & #SarahJacoby is a lunar love song to soul-nourishing solitude.

Learn more: enchantedlion.com/all-books/th...

#kidlit
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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I had the great honor of writing the introduction to the @enchantedlion.bsky.social edition of Gianni Rodari's Adventures of Cipollino, translated by Antony Shugaar. This expands on that introduction! Huge thanks to Max Nelson for letting me dig into kids' books, produce, and the joy of the absurd.
“It is impossible not to extrapolate freely from Cipollino’s dense materiality, not to transpose our own urgent concerns onto its sly inventions. That we’re mostly dealing with fruits and vegetables shouldn’t discourage…generative projection.” — @markkrotov.bsky.social
‘Who is Mr. Babycarrot?’ | Mark Krotov
My daughter Daria and I first encountered Antony Shugaar’s translation of Gianni Rodari’s Telephone Tales several years ago, peering out at us from the
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November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM